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The Role of Inherited Pathogenic CDKN2A Variants in Susceptibility to Pancreatic Cancer.
Pancreas - 1 Sept 2021
Kimura Hirokazu, Klein Alison P, Hruban Ralph H, Roberts Nicholas J
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ABSTRACT: CDKN2A is cell cycle negative regulator, and the role of CDKN2A in the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, which continues to be a lethal cancer, is well-established. Somatic loss of CDKN2A is considered one of the major drivers of pancreatic tumorigenesis. CDKN2A gene is one of the pancreatic cancer susceptibility gene; in addition to melanoma, pathogenic germline CDKN2A variants have been...
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